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A shy face is better than a forward heart. - [Bashfulness] All beauty does not inspire love. Some please the sight without captivating the affections. - [Beauty] All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle. - [Discretion] Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. - [Mercy] An honest man's word is as good as his bond. - [Honesty] Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. - [Caution] Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. - [Beauty] Blessings on him, who invented sleep. - [Blessings] By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." - [Procrastination] Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially. - [Cunning] Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - [Diligence] Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. - [Evil] For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God. - [Friends] Great expectations are better than a poor possession. - [Expectation] He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. - [Courage] He who reforms, God assists. - [Reform] Health and cheerfulness make beauty. - [Health] Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth. - [Historians] History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. - [History] I am of opinion that there is no proverb which is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, the mother of all the sciences. - [Maxims] I am of the opinion that there are no proverbial sayings which are not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, who is the mother of all sciences. - [Apothegms] I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections. - [Deceit] In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. - [Envy] It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. - [Judges] It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. - [Courage] Displaying page 1 of 6 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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